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A French soldier died in an accident during a maintenance operation on the desert platform in Timbuktu in Mali. It is about Adrien Quélin, Marshal of the Logis. His death is announced by General Thierry Burkhard, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces and Florence Parly, the French Defence …

Laurent Delahousse, the head of the European Union in Liberia said he is sorry for saying that the Liberian capital Monrovia is a “disgusting” and “dirty” city, following a backlash. Speaking at an event organised by the Monrovia City Corporation last week, the EU envoy in Liberia said that Monrovia …

Furious at the words of French President Emmanuel Macron who describes the Malian government as “military domination”, the Malian foreign ministry has summoned the French ambassador to Mali on Tuesday. The foreign ministry said it had summoned the French ambassador to inform him of the authorities’ indignation and disapproval, news …

French President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped diplomatic tensions with Algeria would ease soon and that it would be better to hold talks in order to move forward. “My wish is that we can calm things down because I think it is better to talk to one another, and to …

According to the head of a commission charged with investigating abuses committed by members of the Church, some 216,000 children have been victims of abuse committed by Catholic priests in France since 1950. Jean-Marc Sauvé, the head of the commission said during the publication of the report on sexual abuse …

The European Union will return millions doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine which have been manufactured in South Africa to African continent. Strive Masiyiwa, the African Union’s special envoy told reporters that all the vaccines being produced in Africa “will stay in Africa and be distributed to Africa”. “This issue …

Police in Germany said on Monday they were carrying out a large-scale rescue operation in southern Bavaria to find several people missing in the collapse of a wooden bridge in a flooded stream. Four people were rescued following the incident in the Höllental Gorge near the Austrian border, a local …

A Red Cross nurse gave nearly 8,600 people in Germany, saline solution while her mission was to administer them Pfizer vaccines. The events took place in a vaccination center in Schortens-Roffhausen in East Frisia (Lower Saxony). In total, nearly 8,600 people did not receive one of the two doses of …

Facing the wildfires which continue wreaking havoc in the Kabylia region, French president Emmanuel Macron is not indifferent. As a gesture of solidarity, he promised to send two Canadairs and a command plane in order to stop the advance of fires. Through a Tweet, the French president called Algerians “friends …

Italy is hit this week by a heat peak accompanied by fires in the south of the country, especially in Sicily and Calabria, where a UNESCO listed natural park is threatened. The peninsula is currently facing its hottest week of summer, with temperatures already reaching over 47 degrees in Sicily …